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From May 19–22, 1957, a tornado outbreak took place across the US Central Plains.A total of 59 tornadoes were reported from Colorado to the Mississippi Valley. [note 1] [note 2] The most destructive tornado of the severe weather event—likely part of a long-lived family—was rated at F5, the highest level, and is often called the Ruskin Heights tornado, after the site of its worst damage ...
School bus torn to its chassis east of Rainsville. This is considered to be some of the worst damage ever inflicted on a vehicle by a tornado. Just east of Rainsville, the tornado grew to one-half-mile (0.80 km) wide and reached its peak intensity of EF5. Numerous homes, businesses, and public facilities were decimated, with little to no debris ...
The radar measured peak winds of 120–125 m/s (270–280 mph; 430–450 km/h) at the top of the tornado's funnel, suggesting the tornado probably had F5 winds close to the ground. At the time, this represented the strongest winds ever measured by radar, including the first measurements of F5 intensity winds. [98] [99]
(Photo: Getty Images) ... 1947. The F5 tornado started near Canadian, Texas, before moving into Oklahoma. ... the tornado was on the ground for about 100 miles and was up to 1.8 miles wide as it ...
The 1968 Tracy tornado was an extremely powerful tornado that struck Tracy, Minnesota on Thursday, June 13, 1968, at around 7:00 p.m. [1] Rated F5 on the Fujita scale, the tornado killed nine people and injured 125 others. [1] The tornado tracked nine miles (14 km) through Murray, Lyon and Redwood counties in southwestern Minnesota. It is one ...
Aplington-Parkersburg High School sustained EF4 structural damage, and reinforced concrete light poles near the school were snapped and dragged along the ground by the tornado, indicative of extremely intense low-level inflow winds. [2] As the tornado exited at the east side of town, the tornado struck a golf course and a newly built subdivision.
On May 3, 1999, an F5 tornado struck Bridge Creek and Moore, Oklahoma, with winds of over 300 mph - the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth. ... The tornado was on the ground for about an ...
A school was damaged or destroyed by the tornado. A school was damaged or destroyed by the tornado. 1968 Oelwein tornado: F0–F5 [a] A middle school was destroyed by the tornado. [1] An elementary school was destroyed by the tornado. [1] 1968 Tracy tornado: F0–F5 [a] Tracy Elementary School The school was completely destroyed by the tornado ...